How internet search engines work?

Question

I Am doing a collage pjoject on the internet and sreach engines is a big part of it so any information on it would be a great help!

Answer 1

When you look at a web page you actually are looking at a copy that you have downloaded. Search engines have bots - they download the page then index the words in the page in to a database. they are now indexing images by file name and video by file name. They also follow hyperlinks just like we do - so when the Yahoo bot downloads and searches this page it will follow the link to the link I put below. That site will then be listed when you search for something using the Yahoo search engine. As the site is my site - try seaching for my user name using the Yahoo search! You can use Google too! I got them both! lol
If you click the link you will see how I got Google - try clicking some Google stuff - there are links to video - a thing to pick your lucky numbers for the lottery. Video by Madonna and Britney and loads of links to techie stuff, money making - you name it. People don't bother with some links and some actually give away video and other stuff! So explore!! lol

Answer 2

Internet search engines are special sites on the Web that are designed to help people find information stored on other sites. There are differences in the ways various search engines work, but they all perform three basic tasks: * They search the Internet -- or select pieces of the Internet -- based on important words. * They keep an index of the words they find, and where they find them. * They allow users to look for words or combinations of words found in that index. Early search engines held an index of a few hundred thousand pages and documents, and received maybe one or two thousand inquiries each day. Today, a top search engine will index hundreds of millions of pages, and respond to tens of millions of queries per day. In this article, we'll tell you how these major tasks are performed, and how Internet search engines put the pieces together in order to let you find the information you need on the Web.

Answer 3

Search Engines use crawlers to scour the Internet/Web and look for Web sites. I see crawlers from Google and Yahoo on my blog from my counters/logs sometimes.

Answer 4

I know that you can pay to get your site written on google and ask etc. Thats how they make thier money. Im going to do it on freewebs. Email me at [e-mail] and I will give you a password so you can look it up on freewebs. I just dont want every1 knowing. But it ses about traffic blazers etc

Answer 5

They are magic. There are special internet fairies that fly really quickly and find the answer you are looking for. Maybe no true but I like the idea.

Answer 6

when they advertise the shops or people pay them money it kinda gets bigger and bigger